Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Daniel B. Luten papers
Collection
Identifier: L093
Scope and Contents
This collection includes meeting minutes, reports, and records from Daniel B. Luten, George E. Gill, and others in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1931 to 1934, regarding the Emergency Work Committee, Inc. and its activities during the Great Depression. There is also a register of people who visited Charles Fairbanks' headquarters in Chicago during the Republican National Convention of 1908 and a program with notes from the American Plan-Open Shop-Conference in 1928.
Dates:
1908-1934
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Daniel B. Luten papers
Edna Conduitt papers
Collection — Folder S2131
Identifier: S2131
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a June 16, 1933 letter, two depositor's bank orders valued at one dollar and five dollars and marked paid on June 15, 1933, and two unused depositors bank order receipts from the Citizens State Bank of New Castle, Indiana and sent to Edna Cunduitt at the State Capitol in Indianapolis. Miss Conduitt was the secretary of the Indiana Securities and Exchange Commission and had requested samples of script that the bank used during the bank holiday of March, 1933.
Dates:
1933
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Edna Conduitt papers
Ethel McCollough papers
Collection — Folder S867
Identifier: S0867
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises documents and ephemera from the Evansville Public Library, a bank, local schools and church organizations, and federal employment programs in Evansville, Indiana ranging from October, 1933 to April, 1934, regarding local financial and educational issues resulting from the Great Depression. Documents concerning the Evansville Public Library's financial issues include the transcript of a radio talk given by Ethel McCollough and financial reports of building and Civil...
Dates:
1933-1934
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ethel McCollough papers
George W. Sosnowski collection
Collection — Folder S2352
Identifier: S2352
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of correspondence sent to Geoge W. Sosnowski of Gary, Indiana from January to March 1932 by U.S. Senators Henrik Shipstead, James E. Watson, Robert Bulkley, J. Hamilton Lewis, Arthur R. Robinson, Royce S. Copeland, and James J. Davis and Congressmen Louis T. McFadden, John N. Garner, and John E. Rankin in response to the plan Sosnowski sent them for domestic prosperity and improvement of economic and banking conditions through the establishment of a banking...
Dates:
1932-1940
Hugh A. Barnhart photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP157
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs from Hugh A. Barnhart in Indiana, the United States, and Japan, ranging from circa 1880 to 1953, regarding his career with the Indiana Department of Conservation, his political and social life, people he knew, current events, such as a Depression-era bread line, Indiana participants in war criminal trials in Japan post-World War II, and historic sites, including the Nancy Hanks Lincoln State Memorial and Richard Lieber's memorial at Turkey...
Dates:
circa 1880-1953
Kathryn Fletcher Davis family papers
Collection
Identifier: L382
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, personal diaries, account books, and cassette tapes from Kathryn Fletcher Davis ranging from 1900 to 1975 regarding her life, daily expenses, and family. Her diaries record her every day life, including her relationships with family members, illnesses, household chores, and her attempts to bring in additional income through boarders and other jobs. The account books are detailed records of the family's expenses. Notable items include a small mirror with a...
Dates:
circa 1900-1976
Lowene C. Alexander oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH009
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a transcript and an audio cassette tape of an interview with Lowene C. Alexander conducted by Chris Cameron, Nick Kile, and Pam Schutts on June 28, 1980 in Homer, Indiana. In the interview, Alexander discusses her life in Homer, including her family, life on a farm, the Great Depression, her working life, doctors, and more.
Dates:
1980/06/28
Oral history and audio collection
Collection
Identifier: L640
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...
Dates:
circa 1904-2019
Republican Victory League of Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S1616
Identifier: S1616
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises an undated letter to Mr. Ward is signed by William G. Irwin, president of the Republican Victory League of Indiana regarding the organization's refusal to support any particular political candidate or group and its mission to oppose "the Roosevelt-New-Deal institutions."
Dates:
circa 1930s
Rodney C. Perkins collection
Collection
Identifier: L307
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 3 typewritten copies of "Camp and Community", an unpublished novel about the Civilian Conservation Corps written by Rodney C. Perkins (circa 1983). There are carbon copies of his first draft and final draft with corrections and a copy of the completed manuscript. An author's preface is also included with the final draft copies.
Dates:
circa 1983